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The first of two Solar Eclipses in 2017 will occur on February 26 at 9:34:08 AM Washington, D.C. with the conjunction of the Sun and the Moon at 08°12′ Pisces. The eclipse will be an annular solar eclipse, which occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun’s, blocking most of the Sun’s light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometers wide. This solar eclipse will be visible across the southern Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the morning, ending in south-western Africa at sunset.

Since the United States remains the world’s undisputed geopolitical, economic, military superpower, mundane astrologers have consistently found that calculating an event horoscope for Washington, D.C. provides accurate insight and perception into the potential geopolitical, foreign policy, economic impact, and military development that eclipses have on the worldstage.

The February 26th Solar Eclipse is a member of Saros Cycle 140. The 54-year Saros Cycle is an important cycle to consider when evaluating eclipses. In each Saros cycle the shadow of the eclipse moves westward on the surface of the earth by 120 degrees with every eclipse. After 3 eclipses in the same cycle, the shadow of the eclipse has moved 360 degrees and is visible from the same place on earth. This cycle tends to re-energize events from that previous era after 54 years.

Based on the table above, the February 2017 Solar Eclipses relate to events of 1963. In 1963, we saw the emergence of powerful populist empowerment movements such as the Civil Rights Movement with Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his “I have a dream” speech, with Malcolm X making his Message to the Grass Roots speech in Detroit, and President John F. Kennedy delivering his historic Civil Rights Address, in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill and asks for “the kind of equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves.”

Also during 1963 was the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique that launches the reawakening of the Women’s Movement in the United States as women’s organizations and consciousness-raising groups began to rapidly spread.

In 1963 was the issuance of Executive Order 11110, an effort by President John F. Kennedy to transfer power from the Federal Reserve to the United States Department of the Treasury by replacing Federal Reserve Notes with silver certificates, causing a political rift with the Federal Reserve and the American Deep State operatives working in tandem with the CIA.

In a 1963 speech in West Berlin, President John F. Kennedy famously declares “Ich bin ein Berliner” aimed at the Soviet Union as a clear statement of U.S. geopolitical policy to support West Germany, 22 months after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent mass emigration to the West.

Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, involving parties as varied as the CIA and the Mafia, President Lyndon B. Johnson confirmed that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically when the situation in Vietnam was deteriorating.

Politically, 1963 was also a turbulent year in the United Kingdom with the Profumo Crises that caused resignations from the cabinet caused by war minister John Profumo, having an affair with Christina Wheeler who was also involved with a Soviet Navy officer.

The counter-counter revolution began in earnest in the United States by the release of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, with Dylan’s lyrics embracing stories taken from the headlines about civil rights and articulating anxieties about the distress of nuclear warfare. In Europe, the release of “Please, Please Me” and the songs “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “I Saw Her Standing There” released in the U.S. mark the beginning of full-scale Beatlemania.

NASA launches Syncom, the world’s first geostationary (synchronous) satellite, and the United States ends the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight and reaches parity with the Soviet Union in the Space Race to the Moon.

1963 Eclipse Events —> 2017 Eclipse Events

Based on the historical events of 1963 mentioned above, we may see the re-articulation of many of the same themes of high geopolitical tensions, and political animosity and turmoil will be the order of the day. However, we may see a renewed interest in the manned space program, with discussion of a Manned Mars Expedition using new propulsion technology, along with an explosive burst of intellectual and artistic creativity with the emergence of a new wave of musical artists because of a confluence of ideas, concepts, events, issues, and driven technology which act as a social catalyst for rapid change in the culture. We may also see a massive shift to an alternative digital currency system for trade settlement that begins a major shift away from the fiat monetary system controlled by the world’s Central Banks.

We may also see the breakdown of government power by major referendums and sweeping reforms as a result of growing populist empowerment movements that challenge the very power of structure of the Deep State:

“.. there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose.

“All complex societies have an establishment, a social network committed to its own enrichment and perpetuation. In terms of its scope, financial resources and sheer global reach, the American hybrid state, the Deep State, is in a class by itself. That said, it is neither omniscient nor invincible. The institution is not so much sinister, although it has highly sinister aspects, as it is relentlessly well entrenched.”
-Mike Lofgren, Anatomy of the Deep State

The Jupiter-Uranus opposition in the February eclipse horoscope in a T-Square alignment with Pluto, with Mars in a tight conjunction with Uranus indicates the disruption Deep-State politics of influencing and manipulating anti-democratic coalitions in a covert manner within the political system, for ensuring specific interests of the elite are met within the seemingly democratic framework. It is the pervasive influence of special and private interest operating within government that continues to centralize power and wealth through excessive taxation (by non-responsive government) and the continuing curtailment of civil liberties. The eclipse will likely bring out revelations that makes the general public aware that the real enemy of “We the People” is the so-called Deep State.

Politically, a Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto T-Square alignment is historically linked with major reversals in power in leadership often due to scandalous revelations and political shakeups. The Mars-Uranus conjunction in the 12th House of the eclipse horoscope represents the treasonous activities with members of President’s staff, operating as Deep State operatives, to subvert his political agenda to thwart, undermine, and prevent the President from making the sweeping economic and political reform and to change the current trajectory of the nation. The power-struggle between the Trump Administration and the Deep State will likely result with the President invoking counterintelligence operations across the government to root out traitors at NSA, CIA, FBI, including the Departments of State and Department of Defense.

The Eclipse degree at 8.12 Pisces conjuncts the Mars-MC and Uranus-MC Midpoints, which augur dramatic and potent developments ridden with domestic strife, political tensions, and possible international confrontation that could result in a foreign policy crisis over the forthcoming months. The call for leadership to take moral action to deal with the harsh economic realities will impact many people as the integrity of the system begins to degrade. Former Reagan Administration White House Budget Director David Stockman says,

“I think what people are missing is this date, March 15th 2017*. That’s the day that this debt ceiling holiday that President Obama and Boehner put together right before the last election in October of 2015. That holiday expires. The debt ceiling will freeze in at $20 trillion. It will then be law. It will be a hard stop. The Treasury will have roughly $200 billion in cash. We are burning cash at a $75 billion-a-month rate. By summer, they will be out of cash. I think we will have a government shutdown. There will not be Obamacare to repeal and replace. There will be no tax cut. There will be no infrastructure stimulus. There will be just one giant fiscal bloodbath over a debt ceiling that has to be increased and no one wants to vote for. By summer, they will be out of cash. Then we will be in the mother of all debt ceiling crises. Everything will grind to a halt.”

In ancient Rome, Ceres was the patron and protector of plebeian laws, rights and Tribunes. Her Aventine Temple served the plebeians (the common people ) as cult center, legal archive, treasury and law-court. In 287 B.C. plebeian law was extended to the city itself and all its citizens, and the official decrees of the Senate were placed under Ceres’ guardianship. Roman historian Titus Livius puts the reason for this clearly: The consuls could no longer seek advantage by arbitrarily tampering with the laws of Rome. Ceres was thus the patron goddess of Rome’s written laws.

The February eclipse will closely conjunct the U.S. national Ceres indicating that we will see a burst of legislation and legal activity. We may see reforms in regards to Obamacare, with a less partisan but no less action-oriented “repair” phase that Americans overwhelmingly will likely embrace, rather than simply calling for “repeal and replace.”

Eclipse Reactivation

Eclipses often work in pairs. An eclipse in one sign can be reactivated by an eclipse in the opposite sign about six months later. The first eclipse heats the eclipsed degree up, and the second eclipse re-charges the degree about six months later. In this case, the February 26, 2017 Annular Solar Eclipse at 8.12 Pisces opposes the previous Annular Solar Eclipse on September 1st, 2016 at 9.21 Virgo. The September Eclipse made an opposition to Neptune, square both Mars and Saturn.

Therefore, it will reactivate the Saturn-Neptune square alignment that was active on the world since the Fall of 2014 that is linked with chronic social stagnation, growing chronic underemployment, partisan political malaise, and the downside consequences of the “Extend and Pretend” economic policies (that provide temporary “one size fits all” politically expedient solutions, that essentially delay the inevitable) that distort markets, artificially suppressed interest rates, obliterate the mechanism of price discovery, create massive capital misallocation, create back-door bailouts, heighten financial bubbles, and impose collectivist solutions for the intractable economic problems since the 2007-08 Financial Crisis.

Since the Great Recession officially ended in June of 2009, the Federal Reserve with the political support by the Obama Administration implemented policies that maintain the perception of an economic recovery and strong U.S. Dollar by rigging the financial markets in the following ways:

U.S. Treasury Bonds are maintained by direct U.S. Fed monetization and bond purchases, reinforced by Interest Rate Swap Derivative Contracts.

The U.S. Stock Market is maintained by the Working Group for Financial Markets, a.k.a. “Plunge Protection Team”, when Wall Street Banks are subject to periodic fatigue.

The U.S. Dollar is maintained by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund, which employs FOREX derivatives with its arsenal of Western banker tools.

The Gold Market is maintained by Wall Street and London Bank naked shorts, aided by SPDR Gold Trust inventory raids and denied COMEX deliveries, while the Commodity Futures Trading Commission looks the other way.

S. Bank stocks of the six largest TBTF banks on Wall Street, are maintained by phony accounting blessed by the Financial Accounting Standard Board, which overlooks the falsified portfolios for their asset values and hollowed-out reserves.

Since the wake of the 9 years of the 2007-08 financial crisis, we have had the G7 Nations create global policy of debt creation for zero cost through massive quantitative easing programs and zero-to-negative interest rates. This policy started with the Federal Reserve trying to bail out the banking system by bring the cost of money down to zero and crediting financial liquidity by replenishing insolvent financial institutions with quantitative easing and having bonds manufactured by the Treasury Department that were then purchased by the Federal Reserve through the banking primary dealers, so that they could get interest on the debt. The debt was accumulating interest, but the money created from that interest never made it into the economy, resulting a drop in the velocity of money that is now below 1929 levels. (When an economy is healthy, money tends to change hands and circulate through the system quite rapidly.) The debt created now exceeds 100% of GDP as of 2016.

According to astrologer Charles Jayne, solar eclipses can have an effect up to 6 months before they occur and as long as 1 year afterward. The Jupiter-Uranus/Mars-Pluto T-Square alignment in the February eclipse horoscope augurs systemic risk to the financial system in regards to credit (Neptune). World-class investment advisor and precious metals expert Holter explains, “I have been talking about ‘Truth Bombs’ for about a year and a half. I think what is going to happen in 2017 is that this hologram we’ve been living in, the curtain is going to be pulled back. . . One of the big truths that will explode is about the economy, and this will be one of Trump’s biggest problems.” Holter goes on to say, “Trump is a smart guy, and he understands that really what he’s going to be doing is presiding over a bankruptcy. That’s what his main job is going to be, and that’s reorganizing this country.”

As a result of the Federal Reserve and Wall Street stimulating so many asset bubbles, such as the Bond Market (debt), the Housing Market (real estate), and the Stock Market (equities) which is now at near all-time highs, we are on the verge of another financial crisis. Financial analyst and writer Nomi Prins has been warning of such a crash from epic debt, and asset bubbles in 2017 when she says,

“They have artificially stimulated so many different asset bubbles, whether it’s debt, which is epic, or stock markets, many of which are at historic highs. If we have a crash, it will be in the second half of 2017. The promises, the rate hikes, the dollar being high could collapse into the realities of the stability and this artificialness.”

As far as the exchange markets are concerned, we can expect a continuation of the Bull Market in equities, with increasing price swings and volatility, followed by a major pull-back and a series of periodic prices declines, in response to the Government Debt Ceiling Crisis and geopolitical crisis in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

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What we have been witnessing is a revolt from the middle class. We’ve seen the collapse of the middle class that has taken place over the past seven years where there was a recovery on Wall Street but no recovery on Main Street. And the middle class has deleveraged dramatically somewhere between 30-40% depending on what sources you follow.

This type of revolt and growing rebellion by the middle class is also impacting now the working class now as the continued outsourcing has been going unabated, full throttle, if you will, and has impacted virtually every sector of the United States working economy. We are now seeing this voter revolt not only play itself out in local elections or state elections or recently in midterm elections, but now in the presidential general election.

This voter revolt is also being exacerbated by the impact of globalization, which began during the Uranus-Neptune Conjunction in 1992, and coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Also this has been exacerbated by the agenda and all-out effort on the part of the global elite who continued to accelerate and intensify the globalization process in this nation.

Of course, you also have to factor in the Uranus-Pluto alignments and the Saturn-Neptune alignments that are now key mundane factors in play. And we must consider the Jupiter-Saturn alignment that is now in effect the beginning of the astrological new year 2016.

Transcribed from The Astrology Show with Mj Patterson
“What’s Coming in 2015 with William Stickevers”
(Airdate: January 2, 2015)

Mj Patterson: I’m delighted to welcome back William Stickevers from San Francisco. He’s calling in from a great distance to have a chat with us about the year ahead. Here we come, 2015. Let’s find out. Are we going to make money? Are we going to lose money? Is something going to explode? What’s the deal? So, welcome, William.

William Stickevers: Thank you for having me again, Mj. It’s a real pleasure. I really enjoyed our last interview and I’m totally psyched about talking about 2015 because, well, get your seatbelts on — it’s going to be a rough ride next year.

Mj: Yeah, that’s what everyone’s saying.

William: It will be very interesting. There’s a lot to talk about.

Mj: I think a lot of my senior students, they feel a kind of drift in the ocean when they don’t mind doing a birth chart and they can do your basic progressions and transits. But when somebody asks them a big question “what’s going to happen in 2015,” I think they feel that they don’t know what to pick up first. Do you have any advice?

William: Well, first of all, what we’re talking about here is mundane astrology, which is a whole other gamut of perspective, tools, worldview. It’s actually [a way of] trying to understand a civilization [through astrology] the way we study a personality as a psychic structure that is developing and unfolding and self-actualizing as a person, through [the lens of] a personal chart. Everyone goes through their own personal self-actualization. Astrologers look at horoscopes to help guide individuals in that process of that self-actualization, especially if that self-actualization has been somewhat interrupted or in a state of trauma or distress. We look at the same things by applying mundane [astrological] techniques to looking at horoscopes of a nation state or events, and using a host of other astrological techniques and approaches that give us [global] perspective on what [Carl] Jung would call the archetypal development of the collective unconscious that is emerging on the world stage.

Mj: And it really is a horse of an entirely different color, isn’t it?

William: Yes, it’s completely different and we have to be much more objective in our approach which is very difficult. We have to take away our partisan political leanings and we actually sometimes have to strip away a lot of our precepts of how the world ought to be.

Mj: (laughs) Yeah.

William: What are the mundane portents really telling us? One of the things that’s really interesting about mundane astrology in particular, is that most astrologers are pretty much in agreement with the meanings of major alignments such as Saturn-Neptune or Jupiter-Uranus, Uranus-Pluto, etc. They’re pretty much in agreement [about their underlying archetypal meaning and expression], where you don’t find that in natal astrology.

Mj: Not nearly so much. I will concur. I think that’s a very sound observation.

William: Yes. So in a way it is sometimes much easier, where mundane astrologers can get together and we find that we agree on 80% of how we see things unfolding, and [the remaining] 20% is areas that we’re disagreeing in, which [often] is subtle. And that’s a good thing; I like that. Where with natal astrology, it’s almost like trying to herd cats together.

Mj: (laughs) Yeah, I’ve heard that used before with astrologers, for sure.

William: Right. So what we’re going to talk about today is looking at two horoscopes that will give us an idea of what we can expect [in 2015-16], where things are moving towards, and what possibly we can do about it, to whatever level we can.

Mj: Do you have — I should’ve asked you this before we started but let me ask you now — do you have a website where you might have these charts displayed? Because I could put a link to that from my site and the listeners could have a chance to go ahead and take a look at them.

William: Sure. My website is williamstickevers.com and I have specially on my site on my blog forecasts for the astrological year 2014 and all those charts are listed there.

Mj: That’s perfect. So I’ll make sure to signpost everybody over there so they can enjoy the visual while you’re explaining it. That’s going to make it really good for them.

William: Right. Now the other thing I want to establish here is that from the way I do traditional mundane astrology — and I use the word tradition, going back to the tradition — that March 20th was the astrological new year, not January 1st, not December 21st.

Mj: Absolutely. Agreed. Yep, going for the equinox, you mean, the spring equinox.

William: Correct. And so therefore, astrological 2014 will go into January, February, and into most of March of next year.

Mj: Cool. Okay.

W: So we’re still in 2014 on January 1st [2015], folks, in terms of how mundane astrologers match up the year and make forecasts.

Mj: Okay.

William: So, saying that, we can look at the chart of 2015 using the March ingress, and we could also take the December 21st chart when the Sun ingresses into 0 Capricorn and get an idea of the last quarter of 2014.

Mj: Well, I figured that one out so — I’m just going to put my cards right on the table: I am not a mundane astrologer. I have my CA-NCGR so of course I have enough mundane astrology to be able to nod wisely when someone like yourself who is a mundane astrologer discusses things; I don’t feel like a complete numpty. But you’re streets ahead of me on this one, William.

William: Well, you know, it’s simply because I have dedicated, I would say, hundreds to thousands of hours doing this [work]. I’ve read probably 200 books on [or related to] mundane astrology [over nearly 30 years], and not only that, I read books like Don’t Bank On It, The Death of Money, numerous books on geopolitics. I have subscriptions to newsletters from some of the best people I consider in the business, if not in the world who do financial forecasting. So I’m totally immersed in it, and it’s something that I feel I need to do now in order to give people perspective. And the [main] reason I was pushed into this [study] was I wasn’t able to give my clients the answers to many of the problems they were beginning to have [back in 2007-2008]. For example, Jupiter was transiting their 10th house of career so they should have gotten a [well-paying] job, during their peak earning years and were not employed, especially having a master’s degree, and they were unemployed for over two years [when they came to me for a reading.]

Mj: Wow.

William: Yes…living in New York City. So I said to myself, I’ve got to figure out what’s going on here because the old rules in natal astrology weren’t working. For example, you’ve got transiting Jupiter and Solar Arc Uranus hits your Sun everything should be happening and it wasn’t happening for them.

Mj: Got ya.

William: So that’s what pushed me into this.

Mj: I have to say, I had a very similar experience. My mom’s in this little club and they play on the stock market — it’s the Toronto Stock Exchange, though, not the DOW Jones or any of those. But so I thought, this is kind of cool, maybe I’ll have a little fun here, learn a little bit about astrology and try to help them out. And none of the indicators that the “baby” books — because I was starting out, right — none of the indicators were applying anymore. It’s almost like the rules are being changed under our feet.

William: Absolutely. And it has. It has in so many ways. And one of the problems today is that many of the astrologers who are counseling who are not keeping their world view updated and looking at where the trends are moving are not able to help their clients at the level they once were able to. And that’s one of my goals is to inform the astrological community that being aware of the mundane cycles will help you become a better consulting astrologer.

Mj: It seems only logical.

William: So a lot has been going on. I predicted quite a bit for 2014. I believe the best — or worst — is yet to come in this last quarter, especially now that we are in the last two Uranus-Pluto squares.

Mj: Indeed. And I had a little fun, not knowing any of this stuff, I did the only thing I knew how to do and I researched and I looked back in time. And there’s some crazy stuff, man. The Nazi takeover of Germany, apparently, in 1933 was a Pluto-Uranus square. They even cover Genghis Khan; they call him “master of medieval blitzkrieg” and that was in 1201. And that was a conjunction, mind you, but they were basically on the war path throughout the waxing square. So, yeah, I think it’s going to be pretty crazy.

William: Yes. In fact, look at the last Uranus-Pluto conjunction. We had the ’60s protests, the counterculture revolution.

Mj: Yep.

William: We had a revolution in the sciences at the time. We had the psychedelic revolution, we had the space age revolution, the microprocessor revolution, the computer revolution. We also had revolutions in art, film, and it was also the golden age of television.

Mj: And it almost seems like one foot, the other foot. Because what I’m reading is, yes, they had these revolutions and then they had this power backlash where people were trying to squash, like the Nazi takeover of Germany, they actually mention the illegalization of LSD during the square. So it’s like there’s busting out all over and then there’s people getting really stressed out about that, the people who are trying to hang on to the power and really putting the boot down.

William: Well, yes. It also stirs up the oligarchical elite or the [fossilized] patriarchal power structure to strike back [at the masses]. Keep in mind the repressive properties get constellated as well. That’s the shadow side of these Uranus-Pluto alignments which many people avoid talking about. And we’re seeing that now those repressive measures by government through the Patriot Act, and the various other bills that are being pushed through [executive order] without due process of law that are taking away habeas corpus.

Mj: Yeah, we’re having the same problems. It’s not a national thing either because in Canada, we’re dealing with exactly the same thing.

William: Right. So that’s really the icing on the top. What’s really happening as well, and what you have to realize is that these things are being put in place because they’re protection measures to [prop-up and] keep an obsolete system going and to prevent it from fracturing and imploding on its own weight. And that has to do with the [large-scale] economic systems that are in place. So what we’re witnessing now is really the collapse of that system.

Mj: I wish I could find the article that I noted because I’ve been looking at this for the last few months, just being nosy, trying to peek under the covers. And I can’t remember which angle it was, but somebody had written — it might even have been you — about that in the past when we had these outer transits — and I don’t know if it was Neptune-Saturn, I can’t remember — but it was that money systems tend to change and that the last time we had this we went from the gold standard or silver standard to paper money.

William: Actually, I think I did write that article and I correlated every time that we had a Uranus-Pluto alignment, most every time, we had a shift in status or change in the world’s reserve currency.

Mj: Okay.

William: And what many people don’t know, is that in order for any country in the world to trade– whether it’s goods, services, oil or commodities, gold — it has to be done through U.S. dollars. Because U.S. Dollar is the world standard. So nations have to hold U.S. dollars [in their Central Banks] because that’s considered means by which trade settlements and [international] commerce can occur.

Mj: Okay.

William: Now today, what’s happening is because the U.S. dollar is no longer backed by gold, but rather backed by debt, and the United States is no longer able to repay that debt, that the world is beginning to move away from the U.S. dollar and move to other [multilateral] mechanisms where trade settlement can occur. And that’s mainly through the development of the Chinese yuan swap mechanism, along with an alternative SWIFT [Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication] system, that the Russians are putting in place now.

Mj: Well, I’ve been watching China buy up American debt for some time now and waiting to see if anyone was going to notice.

William: Everyone is talking about that right now and the Chinese are fundamentally so tied into America. But the thing is, and what most people don’t realize, is the bigger issue of a global de-dollarization movement taking place. And that de-dollarization is more threatening to the Anglo-American banking system than anything else going on.

Mj: Okay.

William: And that collapse of the Anglo-American banking system will initiate a multi-polar world, instead of a unipolar world that we have now. Moving from a unipolar post-1945 world to a multi-polar world. And that’s really what this Uranus-Pluto is moving us toward. It will be the end of the Petrodollar hegemony that we see.

Mj: Gotcha.

William: And it will be the emergence of a new world order.

Mj: Well, that’s kind of neat because we are sort of skating our way haphazardly towards to the age of Aquarius. So certainly it is an algorithm that better suits an Aquarian mindset.

William: Well, yes, especially with the emergence of cryptocurrencies, which the youth is actively doing. As you know, Uranus is really the planet of youth. And with Uranus-Pluto in 2010 you saw the emergence of Bitcoin, and then soon after, other cryptocurrencies. And the kids today are using the Dark Net, to do commerce by trading for goods and services using Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies that have no [oversight or] control by central banks or any government agency.

Mj: Got ya.

William: So, no taxation. So this is the real revolution that is going on, and here’s what it’s all about: it’s about no longer using the dollar as a means of international trade settlement. And they’re using the internet and cryptocurrencies, and all other means of doing business with each other. And all this is [happening and] moving rapidly. So what we’re seeing at the same time is the breakdown of the United States as the world economic engine per se, that’s affecting the growth of rest of the world. So at some point it will become a fact that the U.S. is no longer going to remain the central hub [of the global economy]. And the U.S. is going to go through some form of a [financial] reset. This will be part of a global reset event.

Mj: Okay.

William: So there will be a global political reset, an economic political reset, a financial reset, and it’s all coming to a head.

Mj: Yeah. And I think, too, that it’s really interesting to watch. It’s not that the governments have gotten any worse; they’ve always been horrible. Recently it’s been demonstrated in law that our extent Prime Minister is a criminal. He actually forged the last election. He is, in fact, in power illegally, and nobody’s doing anything about it. But the thing is, people are getting less and less tolerant of this behavior. And that’s what I find interesting. The average person is just “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” So it’s going to be an interesting year.

William: The 2015 – 2016 period, as we begin the traditional new year, on January 1st, the “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore ” theme is going to take hold strongly [within the collective]. You’re going not only going to see that with the government, you’re going to see that in large-scale organizations, in companies, in communities, and in marriages as well. You’re going to see that in school lunchrooms, in prisons, in every area. It’s going to seem like the whole world is starting to just lose it.

Mj: Yep.

William: Because when people have nothing else to lose, they lose it. And that’s where people are at.

Mj: Yeah. They’re on the raggedy edge, aren’t they? I think that’s true, and it’s nice, it’s wonderful that we’re having this cross-border conversation because I’m not talking from a Canadian perspective. You’re not talking from an American perspective. This is the deal, baby, and it’s a global deal.

William: Right. And that’s what I said in my 2014 article that I published on March 20th, “Global Revolution Goes Full Throttle.” And we’re going to see that. We’re seeing that now with Ukraine, and we’ve been seeing that all last year. And I believe that revolution theme of “I’m sick and tired and I’m not going to take it anymore” is going to happen now. People are going to lose complete trust in the system because — economies are all based on trust. And once there’s no sense of trust, the system begins to break down.

Mj: Okay.

William: And that is exactly what we are now witnessing. And that is the thing folks need to keep in mind. What is money? What does money mean? And they’re going to realize they no longer trust what they’re being told what their money is anymore. Especially when it can do less and less for them.

Mj: Yeah, this is cool. So for those people who are learning, who want to get involved with the mundane astrology, they want to get their toes wet, how could you coach them? Is there a book they should read? Obviously, they are going to check out your website, which is fantastic, which I just want to say is williamstickevers.com. So, folks, that’s a good place to go to start your journey. But what else would you recommend? Here’s what I know — I know that 0 Aries and 0 Capricorn are really important in mundane astrology. That’s about it, and I’ve learned from you tonight that the beginning of a mundane year is at the spring equinox, which is really cool and thank you for teaching me that. And that’s pretty much where I’m at.

William: Yeah, look, I have to say this, mundane astrology is a vast subject. There are as many techniques in mundane astrology as there are in natal astrology. Now, if you can’t see the answer your client has in transits, can’t see it using progressions, and even tertiaries aren’t working for you, and you decide to use a new natal technique [or horary] to get the answer, that is stretching it. In mundane astrology, we have many techniques as well that’s very much tied up with cycles. Like the Hindu yoga cycles; the Plato great years cycle; the processional great years cycle; the cycles between the collective planets and Uranus-Neptune-Pluto; the declination cycles in Uranus-Neptune-Pluto; the cycles between a social and collective planet such as Jupiter-Saturn, Uranus-Neptune-Pluto; the cyclic index of Gouchon and Barbault; the world horoscope; the collective planet cycles of national charts; the cycles of intermediates planets, such as Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

Mj: Okay.

William: And we have the annual cycles that focus on the time and location with long-term trends. And then we have the solar cycle, the lunar cycles, and the daily cycles.

Mj: So arguably if you’re using solar-lunar you’re using the Saros cycles, the eclipse cycles as well, then.

William: Correct, absolutely. In fact, the fastest way you can get yourself immersed in mundane astrology is by understanding the eclipse cycle.

Mj: Cool!

William: And then looking at the outer planet cycles which the Barbault and Gouchon index measure. Because people can understand graphs pretty easily.

Mj: Yeah.

William: It’s pretty intuitive when you see the line of the graph go up or down to where things are moving towards. So there are many other techniques out there that one must get immersed in — ingresses, lunations, eclipses is the first step. And then taking it further, you can get into the cycles of the outer planets as the Barbault Index does, which has proven itself over and over again to be the most reliable indicator of the global economy and political stability and the development of civilization in history. And by the way, that indicator right now is showing a [sharp] downward trend between 2014 and 2022.

Mj: Okay.

William: So we’re going to have on this index, which I actually looked at since 1 AD and analyzed it all the way until current time and correlated with all the major historical events.

Mj: So that’s what I love. I just need to pause you there because, did you hear that, listeners? He started with 1 AD, and he studied all that back-data. Why? So that he can use forward-data effectively and accurately. This is the science of astrology. Go ahead, William.

William: Well, basically what we do is we take the outer planets and we determine when they’re moving closest to each other, the line goes down. When they’re moving furthest from each other, the line goes up.

Mj: Okay.

William: So the line goes down, that is a period of involution and breakdown and crisis and contraction, revolution, upheaval. When the line goes up, that’s a period of development, constructive periods where you see recovery, social conditions improving, stability, optimism, a lot of constructive developments occur. So we look at that and see for example if you look at the 20th century, there was a big drop in 1914 to 1919. That was the time when World War I occurred.

Mj: Mm-hmm.

William: Then you had the Roaring ’20s where the line goes shooting up. And then the line drops significantly starting in ’29 and bottoms in ’32, and that was the time where the world was initiated into the Great Depression.

Mj: Sure. The Dirty Thirties.

William: The line stabilizes and then makes a really big drop from ’39 into ’43/’44 which correlated with the biggest battles in World War II.

Mj: Mm-hmm.

William: Then the line stabilizes throughout the ’50s, takes another drop again and that correlates with the Korean War. The line moves up again and then you have that period in the early ’60s where we had the Space Race and the JFK era.

Mj: And peace and love, man. Don’t forget, peace and love, man.

William: That’s right, so we have that, the ’60s revolution. The line takes another dramatic drop in ’73 and that was the oil crisis, you’ll remember.

Mj: Yep.

William: And we also had that war in the Middle East and we had massive inflation.

Mj: Up here we had a typical mortgage rate in that time because my mom went and bought a house during that time. It was something crazy like 25%.

William: Right. So then the line hits a real bottom in ’82; that is called the Second Cold War. And then the line begins moving up rapidly from ’85 onward and that’s when Gorbachev takes power, that’s when Glasnost and Perestroika happen, and also when the economies of Japan and Germany are thriving and become major partners with the United States. It’s a booming period. Then the line drops in the early ’90s when the Soviet Union collapses. And then the line shoots up nonstop from around ’93 to 2001, and what did we see?

Mj: Okay.

William: We see this boom period of irrational exuberance take place, with this massive bubble build up. Then all of a sudden [out of nowhere] 9/11 occurs, the Dot Com Bubble implodes, and then the line stabilizes all the way through until 2006. And then it begins dropping and it drops again until 2009. And you see the financial crisis occur, the collapse of the Lehman crisis, and the global financial implosion. You see massive deleveraging of the Middle Class occur and double-digit unemployment worldwide. Then the line stabilizes between 2008 until 2014 and then it begins the biggest drop, a 500-point drop which correlates very closely with the collapse of the Roman Empire between May of 2014 until September 2022.

Mj: Crikey. Yeah, because that is when we were thinking that there might be a hit on the stock market around Easter time [2014] and I was really surprised that it didn’t seem to show up.

William: Well, let me explain that. A lot of people think the stock market is the market to watch. It is not. It is the least sophisticated and smallest market. The total capitalization is only $60 trillion.

Mj: I’m sorry, did you say only $60 trillion? Oh my God.

William: It’s about the capitalization of Microsoft. No, excuse me, let me take that back. It’s the total market capitalization of one year’s global GNP, $60 trillion.

Mj: Wow. Okay.

William: Now, what’s larger than that is the bond market. That’s over $100 trillion.

Mj: Okay.

William: And what’s even bigger than that is the currency market, the FOREX market, the commodities, the currencies. And they trade at $5 trillion a day.

Mj: Crikey.

William: Now take $5 trillion and multiply it by 365. That’s a huge number.

Mj: That’s a big number. Oh yeah.

William: So here’s the thing. When people talk about the stock market, especially the astrologers, they have very little understanding that the stock market is the last thing to be affected by…

Mj: The last thing to go — not the first thing to go…

William: Yes, that is the last thing to go. You want to look at is at the commodities market, the currency markets, what the central banks are doing, and then after that, you want to look at the bond markets. And I can tell you that if you look at that, and you look at what has recently transpired exactly on the day of the Uranus-Pluto alignment on December 15th — what happened that day?

Mj: I do not know. Teach me.

William: The Russian ruble.

Mj: Did it devalue? Oh yeah! I remember hearing about this.

William: Now that is very important. Why? It’s important because the ruble is very tied in with oil, the way the Russians sell their oil to the Europeans who are extremely dependent on them. And remember, Russia is the largest oil and gas provider in the world, not the Middle East. That being said, the fact that the ruble is being devalued and the Russian economy is about to collapse is a very telling sign because that will set off a Credit Soft Swap [CDS] from a crashing derivative. Now, derivatives are bets on bets [with no oversight], and Russian oil futures contracts based on trading around $90 a barrel., and trading companies hedge their bets on future contracts with derivatives.

Mj: Okay.

William: Now remember, the derivative market is worth 10 times the amount of the stock market.

Mj: Crikey.

William: Yes. It’s bigger than the stock market, it’s bigger than the bond market. And who also uses derivatives? [Too Big to Fail] Banks.

Mj: Oh…

William: All “too big to fail” banks make their money, not by lending money anymore — that’s old school. That’s why they don’t lend money out. They don’t lend it to anyone for that matter; that’s why the money supply is lower than it was in 1932. In other words, the circulation of money is occurring less than at the height of the Great Depression.

Mj: Crikey.

William: So the banks get money from the government. They keep that money, and they then invest that money into the derivatives market and what is left over to the stock market. And the derivatives market is tied in directly with the currency market. And so, when there are derivative contracts, or $90 oil, and oil is now trading at $50, and now going to $20…

Mj: Yeah, we know this in Canada because Alberta right now is our oil patch, I guess you could say, and you’re talking to me in Nova Scotia which is on our east coast, and everybody here goes out west to get work and sends the money home. So everybody’s just been laid off and they’ve all come home just before Christmas.

William: And it has to do with the fact that the Russian ruble, the derivative positions, and the Russian ruble have been compromised to the point where when those contracts come due, there will not be enough money in the world to cover them.

Mj: Got ya.

William: And so therefore, the sheer speed and scale of the collapse of the ruble has nothing to do with what happened in 1998. Because the eighth largest economy on the entire planet is in a state of turmoil right now, and what we are going to see is a major upheaval in the derivatives market and that is going to affect everybody.

Mj: I mean, it’s terrifying but I have to say, with my astrologer head on, I find it absolutely fascinating.

William: Yes. So like I said, and I’ll read the conclusion verbatim for the folks here. “What is occurring now in Russia that happened on December 15th [2014] during the penultimate Uranus-Pluto alignment will have terrible repercussions through all of Europe. The implications between now and the final Uranus-Pluto square that will occur in March 2015 is extremely hostile and volatile to the global economic climate, and it will not be confined within Russia’s borders.”

Mj: Not at all.

William: “This is just a prelude to the great unraveling as exchange rate volatility continues to increase, leading the way to systemic debt contagion.” So remember, back in the ’20s and early ’30s, Europe went into a depression first, then it hit North America. We are seeing the same thing go in play again. And remember — when you have financial wars, lead to trade wars, lead to shooting wars.

Mj: Yep. Absolutely. And certainly that is what history teaches us. Okay, so, here’s the $5 question. Given that we’re about to get a storm where we’re going to be floating around on a stormy sea in a tea cup holding on with both hands, what is your advice to the average Joe for the year ahead? What shouldn’t they do, what should they do?

William: Well, I think political activism, social activism. I think you need to get really involved. I think they’ve got to stop expecting the elected officials to — they have to stop buying into what they’ve been told. I don’t have all the quick and dirty answers for this —

Mj: No, no, I’m not expecting. I mean, it would be great but we couldn’t possibly pay you enough an hour if you had the quick and dirty answer (laughs) to this one. (laughs)

William: Let’s just say that, what I really believe needs to be done [to address the crisis], needs to be much more radical in the sense that, compared to what people are doing now. Just posting something on Facebook and ranting about is not enough.

Mj: Yeah.

William: You know, part of the reason I’m doing this radio show is to get the message out there that life is going to change for many people, and if you think that voting for the other party come election time in November 2016 or whenever they vote in Canada is going to be the solution, that is NOT the solution. What we need is a complete change in the system and we need to become very active in that process of change, starting now. We need to voice our positions. And what this comes down to this, and that is we no longer have a representative government.

Mj: We have not had a representative government, certainly at our end, for a long time.

William: Right. And so I believe what ordinary people need to do is completely drop the expectation that “if I vote for the other [establishment] party I never voted for this time around, things will change.” Sorry but that is not going to change anything.

Mj: Yeah, wasn’t it Einstein, or it’s often ascribed to Einstein, that “a problem that’s created at one level of thinking cannot be solved by that level of thinking,” you have to get up to a higher octave.

William: Correct. So I believe the revolution starts [right in your own] home It starts in local communities. It starts with getting organized and discussing these things and not trying to immediately come up with solutions but recognizing what’s really going on. A lot of folks out there, including the astrologers, need to start doing this. And you know this, Mj, we don’t see any of this happening. Most are just clueless. Many astrologers are not even talking about it.

Mj: (sigh) Well, yeah, but the thing is, William, you’re asking them to re-learn. The problem is that I can feel it, I can see it. I mean, I’m all about the data, same as you, and the paradigm is shifting, which means that the astrological indicators are shifting which means we got to get up off our ass and crunch the data and figure out what it means this week, not what it meant in 1922. And there are a lot people who are very comfortable because they learned it in 1922 and they really don’t want to learn it again.

William: Well, this is what I have to say to folks listening, especially those astrologers out there is this: Soon, much sooner than you think, you will know what I know.

Mj: But not by the indications that they’re used to using. That’s what I’m noticing is that if you don’t treat astrology as the science it is, and if you keep relying on old data, pretty soon you’re going to look like a Proper Wally because you’re going to be saying stuff that isn’t true and you’re going to be missing critical stuff that people need to know.

William: Right. So what I say to the folks out there and to the astrologers is that your world view [as you have known it] ended a long time ago.

Mj: Mm.

William: It ended back in 2000, 2001. Okay. And your world view is not sufficient to come to the solutions and recognitions of the issues at hand. This has nothing to do with intelligence [but about consciousness]. And all this is going to happen soon is an event will take place — it’s already begun —

Mj: Yeah.

William: Well to many that will shift and shatter your present world view. And there are many other people out there who are catching on. One of the things I’m going to say right now is the Prepper Movement is going to go mainstream, worldwide. There is about 10 million people prepping for some event or they’re buying bitcoin or gold or silver, they’re getting a 3-month food supply in the house, and being self-sufficient, doing whatever they need to do to survive some type of major dislocation.

Mj: Yep.

William: That number is going to grow to, like, 50%. I believe it’s going to grow upward to 50%.

Mj: Yeah, I’m really noticing that here. We’ve got something called Halifax Garden Swap. It is the most radical thing you can do, right, is grow your own food. Because that sticks it to Monsanto like nothing else will.

William: Right. So again, I just have to say this, to those skeptical folks out there, who think “steady as she goes,” or “it’s just going to be more of the same but only worse”, you will soon know what I know.

Mj: It won’t be so crazy in a couple of years.

William: Maybe sooner than that.

Mj: Sooner than that! You reckon this year, eh?

William: Yes. I believe this event has already begun and I believe you will see the fallout go worldwide, and then from Wall Street to Main Street much sooner than anybody thinks.

Mj: Alrighty. Well, I’m going to hang onto my hat all the way over here in Halifax and hope we don’t get a tsunami. (laughs) Listen, it’s been absolutely amazing having you on. I’m very grateful for your time, and I might be rattling your chain over the next few months as things kick off, maybe bring you back on and give us — you could be our rudder, you could give us a little bit of guidance, eh?

William: Yes, absolutely. We’ll focus more on that in the next discussion. I just wanted to make my statements that 2015 is going to be the year where everyone is going to start getting it.

Mj: Well, I’m excited and I appreciate the tips for the mundane astrologers out there, too — or maybe the bouncing baby mundanes like me — because it is too much to eat whole. It’s too huge; you have to take little nibbles. So I’m going to go and follow your advice and definitely going to check out your page. And I’ll make sure there are links from my page to yours so people can find you.

William: Thank you very much for having me, Mj, and I hope your audience appreciates the type of show you provide because there are very few shows out there that cover the scope or gamut of things that are going on in astrology like yours does.

Mj: Well, it’s fun, you know. And it allows me to talk to cool folks like your good self, right? So, (laughs) I look forward to speaking with you soon and thank you so much for joining us here on The Astrology Show.

On December 23rd the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed above 18,000 for the first time after data allegedly showed the U.S. economy posted its strongest growth in more than a decade! The DOW has tripled its March 2009 lows, trading at 18.5 times forward earnings, higher than the 10-year average of 13.9.

However what you probably don’t know is that when the DJIA just blew past 18,000, high yield debt is starting to crash again, and Bloomberg’s Commodity Index for Industrial’s
(BCOM:IND) dropped below the 2008 financial crisis lows of 125, for the first time.

The collapse of the commodity prices is considered a “leading indicator” by most Wall Street pundits of where the broader markets are heading and this is an ominous trend in regards to the stock market. Because prior to the horrific collapse of stocks in 2008, the high yield debt of the bond market that is based on the price of commodities and energy prices collapsed first.

Below is a clear example of what happened with the commodity markets that led up to the financial crash of 2008. The graph below of the U.S. High Yield B Total Return Index Value shows that high yield bonds began crashing early September, two weeks before the Lehman Stock Market Crash on September 15th 2008:

Commodity Markets Leading Up to the Financial Crash of 2008

However, the U.S. stock market did not crash and bottom for nearly another 3 months (early December) AFTER the debt collapse of the corporate junk bond market:

High Yield Debt, the Commodities Market, and Junk Bonds

The point is, what happens to high yield debt is often an excellent indicator of what is about to happen to stocks and nearly 20% of the commodities market is composed of energy bonds. Because of the declining price of oil, the panic in energy bonds is starting to infect the broader markets. So if you really want to know where the stock market is heading in 2015, keep a close eye on the market for high yield debt by looking at the recent activity on the high yield debt on the the junk bond market.

iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond (HYG) First Trade Horoscope

Above is the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bd (HYG) ETF first trade horoscope.
The iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. dollar-denominated, high yield corporate bonds.

Since the beginning of November, junk bonds have been falling steadily on the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bd (HYG), as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has continued to reach new heights…

Keep in mind that the dynamic, as shown above, is one that is neither sustainable or tenable, nor is it one that will persist indefinitely. Either junk bonds will rebound or U.S. stocks will start falling.

The blackbox planetary transit forecast to the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bd (HYG) ETF first trade horoscope portends a period of extreme volatility and drastic price changes. For the Uranus-Pluto square alignment throughout 2015 will continue to exert tremendous downward pressure on the high yield corporate bond market — a testimony that the junk bond market will continue to fall in the coming months ahead.

In addition, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), which is one of the best leading indicators of economic activities, measures the demand to ship raw materials and precursor materials to production. The BDI indirectly measures global supply and demand for the commodities shipped aboard dry bulk carriers, such as building materials coal, metallic ores, and grains. As of now the BDI is at the lowest point since 2008.

Due to the recent collapse of commodity prices along with massive fleets of credit-driven malinvestment-based shipping vessels, the BD just plunged back below 1000, now at its lowest for this time of year since 2008.

Keep in mind, not only are commodities crashing but Crude Oil is cliff-diving:

Oil’s collapse is predicated by one major event: the explosion of the US Dollar carry trade. Worldwide, there is over $9 TRILLION in borrowed US Dollars that has been ploughed into risk assets.

Energy projects, particularly Oil Shale in the US, are one of the prime spots for this. But it is not the only one. Economies that are closely aligned with commodities (all of which are priced in US Dollars) are getting demolished too.

Just about everything will be hit as well. Most of the “recovery” of the last five years has been fueled by cheap borrowed Dollars. Now that the US Dollar has broken out of a multi-year range, you’re going to see more and more “risk assets” (read: projects or investments fueled by borrowed Dollars) blow up. Oil is just the beginning, not a standalone story.

If things really pick up steam, there’s over $9 TRILLION worth of potential explosions waiting in the wings. Imagine if the entire economies of both Germany and Japan exploded and you’ve got a decent idea of the size of the potential impact on the financial system.

And that’s assuming NO increased leverage from derivative usage.

In many ways 2014 is the new 2007 with all the negative potential but 1000 times more explosive going into 2015, as similar economic patterns that were in play going into the financial crisis of 2008 are now happening once again, with the stock market becoming completely divorced from economic fundamentals as the “real economy” continues to disintegrate.

Another Ominous Sign of Financial Trouble

Five “Too Big To Fail” Banks U.S. With More Than $40 Trillion Each In Exposure To Derivatives

Another ominous sign that we are heading towards a financial trouble is President Obama recently signed omnibus spending plan that changed several provisions in the Dodd-Frank law that restricted derivative trading and the use of depositor money for Wall Street gamblers.

What that means is bankers can use depositor money and if or when the markets blows up and the banks are in trouble again, depositors (checking and savings accounts, along with trust funds, and pensions) will be on the hook for trillions of bad bets by the Too Big To Fail (TBTF) banks.

There are 5 TBTF banks in the United States that each have more than $40 trillion in exposure to derivatives of various types. They are as follows:

Citibank

Citigroup was the driving force behind recent legislation to use taxpayer money to insure banks against losses in the risky derivatives market. Citigroup has increased the amount of derivatives on its books by 69% since 2007. Americans already bailed out Citigroup during the financial crisis to the tune of $45 billion, plus $2 trillion in emergency loans!

Oil Derivative Contracts and Bailouts (and Bail-ins)

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts stated that he thinks that the legislation was passed because of the trouble that has been brewing from the oil derivatives, which is now estimated to be nearly $300 trillion in future derivative losses!

Why else would Citigroup be pushing this bailout to Congress in such a hurry? Simple, because the TBTF banks have placed some very bad bets on oil derivative contracts and are going to need another massive bailout, or rather I should say a “bail-in”, when they come due in the coming months ahead.

Keep in mind that the recent bill was a bad deal for Main Street when both Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican Senator Ted Cruz – who are total polar opposites in the political spectrum – but not on this issue, voted against it. About 40 Senators also voted against it from both parties, but it was not enough to stop it from going to the President’s desk to be signed into law.

Below is the 2015 planetary transit multi-blackbox forecast to the five TBTF banks in America:

TBTF 5 Major Banks Blackbox Forecast 2015 – 2016

If we look further into the longer planetary cycles that are now in operative over the forth-coming months ahead we can see heading for another global crisis.

Barbault Planetary Cyclic Index

Before we proceed, lets review quickly what the Barbault Planetary Cyclic Index is. The Cyclic Index (the graph above), is the sum of all the angular distances between the pairs of the outer planets, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The Cyclic Index has proven to be one of the most accurate predictive tools for mundane astrologers for determining economic growth and political relations among nations. According to astrologer Andre Barbault, the sum waxing phase (ascending line) of each planetary pair are considered periods of stability and evolution (constructive growth, development, expansive, progressive with optimism and diplomacy ) while the waning phase (descending line) are periods of crises and involution (contraction, decay, recession, pessimism, war and destruction).

The next and final Uranus-Pluto square alignment will occur on March 16th 2015. During this period, Mars will enter Aries and conjunct Uranus and square Pluto. This highly dangerous and volatile planetary combination that augurs powerful shocks to the system, drastic changes in financial position, titanic power plays and attempted takeovers, accelerating market volatility, major market corrections, currency crisis, bank panics, and often unexpected and sudden large-scale economic failure.

Since 2008 the United States has wallowed in slowly degrading financial conditions, hidden by bogus economic statistics, suppressed interest rates, reckless monetary policy, and artificial stimulus (TARP/QE – central banks pumping cheap money into the financial system), in an attempt to prop up and manipulate stock prices and equities markets in an attempt to prevent a deflationary depression.

Projecting forward, the final Uranus-Pluto alignment in the Winter of 2015 occurs during which time the Cyclic Index makes its precipitous downward plunge, descending 497 points from its peak in May 2014 at 996 to 456 in March 2022, indicating that we are heading into a perilous period where the damage control that was put in place in 2008-09 by the central banks and government will begin to wear-off. The excessive rationalization and applied perception management on the part of the government pontificated by the mainstream media will begin to lose credibility with the general populace as day-to-day uncertainty fraught with “high strangeness” increases, as “volcanic shocks” to the global system continue to intensify.

Today we have the greatest debt bubble in history. And we also have the greatest asset bubble in history that includes stocks, commodities, and real estate. The last time an asset bubble burst was in 2008 because of the subprime crises, due to a small tranche of loans that went bad, which triggered a financial panic and a debt crisis to follow.

Now have a similar scenario which is very likely to occur again and mundane astrological portents augur major trouble ahead as geopolitical and financial shock-waves continue to accelerate and intensify with tremendous pressure on oil derivatives along with the debt underpinning the energy sector. This will likely trigger major turmoil and trouble in the derivatives markets as oil and energy derivative contracts come up short and invoke expected margin calls that will trigger the next global crisis.

Prediction:

Things will quickly unravel as we enter 2015, and the populace will soon forget much of the recent propaganda that the U.S. economy is growing strongly and that job creation is robust, for the world has NEVER been in a more precarious economic, financial, and geopolitical situation that it’s in right now. As those Derivatives go bad, it will exert massive and insurmountable losses in the Credit Default Swap (CDS) markets, which in turn will take out the major banks. For it is clear we are about to undergo a period of pain, change, and crisis as we witness radical events of collapsing global currencies along with the breakdown and collapse of unsustainable, obsolete, and untenable systems of finance and banking.

Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, many progressive economists in both academia and on Wall Street have recognized the brilliant insight of Soviet Economist Nikolai Kondratiev ( pronounced “Kon-DRA-tee-eff”), and accordingly there have been many reports, articles, theses and books written on the subject of this “cyclical” phenomenon. An influential essay, written by Professor W. Thompson of Indiana University, has indicated that K-Waves have influenced world technological development since the 900s. His thesis states that “modern” economic development commenced in approximately 930 A.D. (during the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of 928) in the Sung province of China, and he propounds that since this date there have been 18 K-Waves since, lasting on average 60 years.

What most mundane astrologers continue to overlook is that the K-Wave is a 60-year cycle (+/- a year or so) coincides closely with Jupiter-Saturn Synodic Cycle, composed of four 15-year internal phase cycles that are characterized as seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter:

• Spring phase: A new factor of production, good economic times, rising inflation.

• Summer phase: Hubristic ‘peak’ war followed by societal doubts and double-digit inflation.

• Autumn phase: The financial fix of inflation leads to a credit boom which creates a false plateau of prosperity that ends in a speculative bubble.

• Winter phase: Excess capacity worked off by massive debt repudiation, commodity deflation and economic depression. A ‘trough’ war breaks psychology of doom and gloom.

The chart below best summarizes the generally accepted phases since 1782 (based on the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction) for the United States. Note the significant wars that accompanied the recession (price peak) and depression (trough) phase. Also note the tag name for the Autumn periods that were characterized by massive debt growth and speculative bubbles.

If Kondratiev was right about the 60 +/- super-cycles, we still have another 6 years of deflationary downturn and economic depression that commenced in 2007 before we hit bottom.

The Barbault Planetary Cyclic Index (graph below) is the sum of all the angular distances between the pairs of the outer planets, from Jupiter through Pluto. The Cyclic Index has proven to be one of the most accurate predictive tools for mundane astrologers for determining global economic and political stability.

During the Cardinal Grand Cross Alignment in April, the Barbault Planetary Cycle Index began its long steady decline halfway through the Kondratiev winter K-Wave that commenced in the year 2007. The Barbault Cyclic Index will continue to decline until it reaches its baseline trough in 2020 – 2022, during the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, indicating that we are heading into dangerous and perilous period. In all probability we will likely see an acceleration and intensification of economic contraction that will move the nation from a “recession” to a “depression” phase in the second half of 2015 (during the waning of Jupiter-Saturn square) that will last until approximately 2020-2022.

Although many astrologers remain bullish and optimistic on the American economy and the so-called Recovery (what Recovery?), on Friday the Dow dropped about 150 points on Friday and 5% for the month for the worst January since 2009. The S&P 500 dipped about 3.5% for the month, and the Nasdaq fell nearly 2% at 4:12 pm EST on the Wall Street Exchange.

Keep in mind that the Federal Reserve pulled a bit of a surprise this week by cutting back on the bond buying program event though its STILL pumping out $65 billion a month propping up the economy WHILE artificially holding down interest rates. However while doing so recent news revealed a big UPTICK in unemployment and FALLING home sales.

But what I believe is really getting investors and the smart-money folks are nervous about the 800 Pound Gorilla in the plush and opulent “Wall Street” living room – the rapidly growing debt bubble that could implode the economy and send the world into a depression. It seems clear that both parties are in denial about how bad the economy really is. The Fed is still pumping out $65 billion a month. Former Bear Sterns commodities trader and strategic investor Greg Mannarino has stated that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to prop up the stock market by driving money back to the U.S. from emerging markets. Another world-class investor with an outstanding track record Doug Casey, says the bond bubble is the big problem, and that and it is only a matter of time until it pops.

This would create a “vicious cycle” of ballooning interest payments, rising debt piles and investor doubt that would force interest rates up further.

To add to this, former World Bank Chief Economist Justin Yifu Lin said this week, “Dominance of the greenback is the root cause of global financial and economic crises.” He also says the dollar should be “replaced” as the reserve currency. If that happens, which I predict that it will, interest rates would shoot up much higher along with inflation in the U.S., and those MYRA bonds the President wants Americans to buy would IMPLODE!

It clear that the epic Central Bank rigging over the past five years that has been propping up a bankrupt financial system by printing money will only last so long, and likely come to to an tragic end much soon then anyone expects.

Uranus-Pluto Square Alignment Timeline Graph 2005 – 2020

As we enter into the mid-cycle of the Uranus-Pluto Square alignment, the collective archetypal power of titanic change signified by the Cardinal Square in Spring 2014 augurs growing geopolitical volatility and a rapidly changing interest rate environment that will have a direct impact on the global financial system and governments throughout the world, that will lead to a critical “reconfiguration event.”

Keep in mind, very few financial pundits and “experts” from the mainstream media will ever see this crash coming. Very few of them saw it coming in 2000. Very few of them saw it coming in 2008. And very few of them will see it coming again in 2014.

For the record…

• I am more committed to the truth and outcome of political contest than my own political expectations or preferences.
• I call it as I see it, not as I want it.
• I have been a registered Independent since 1984.
• I am a political atheist; I don't believe in political parties.

Political Athiest:
A person or persons who has a disbelief in the ruling of a dominating government with morals of any kind. Those who have belief that not everything produced by politics or the media hold truth of any kind. He/she whom holds their own belief in what is wrong or right not based on what is fed to them by what the general public allows themselves to be brainwashed with.Source: Urban Dictionary